Cop Killer Comic

American laws rightly criminalize evil intent only if it is married to evil deeds. However, if a copy of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's Scarlet was ever found in any of the semi-public libraries of Occupy Wall Street or its imitators and the police freaked out about it, it would be hard to blame them. Scarlet is not a vile comic, but it’s a dangerous one in the wrong hands. Its heroine, a young redhead named Scarlet Rue, is just about the most sympathetic violent revolutionary you will ever meet. Which is saying a lot considering how she punctuates her political points by killing cops. She does it up close and personal and through the telescopic lens of a sniper rifle hooked up to a camera—to record it for convenient YouTube viewing later.